Khaled Akar

Khaled Akar (died 25 November 1987) was a PFLP-GC militant and one of the two attackers in the Night of the Gliders in 1987.

Biography
Khaled Akar was a Palestinian youth who fled to Lebanon with his family due to Israel's occupation of Palestine, and Akar joined the PFLP-GC militant group. Akar and Melod Najah volunteered to take part in a raid against Israel near Kiryat Shmona on 25 November 1987, with the both of them taking off from Syrian-controlled land in Lebanon on engine-pumped gliders, equipped with AK-47s, silenced pistols, and hand grenades. They killed six Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and wounded 8 soldiers in the attack. However, Akar was blinded by searchlights while landing at the IDF camp, landing in the security zone and being tracked down and killed.